Social Democrat Hunchakian Party

The Social Democrat Hunchakian Party (SDHP) is a socialist political party in Armenia that was founded in 1887 by a group of Russian Armenian Marxist students who studied in Western Europe. The party was the first socialist party to operate in the Ottoman Empire and Persia, and the party's original goal was to gain independence from the Ottoman Empire. During Soviet rule in the Armenian SSR, the party operated from exile, and it allied with the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and the Future Movement in Lebanon. The party held just 2/128 Parliament of Lebanon seats in 2018.